Not exact matches
Bestselling journalist and author Cathy Scott has
penned numerous true crime and biography books, including Murder in Beverly Hills, (a silver
award - winner in Foreword magazine's 16th Annual Book
of the Year
Awards), and Death in the Desert (the inspiration for the feature film
of the same
name).
The book won the
PEN / Hemingway
Award, was
named one
of the New York Times Book Review's «10 Best Books
of the Year» and became a finalist for the National Book
Award.
Since the
PEN / Hemingway
Award recognizes a debut work
of fiction, there are understandably no
names with the star power
of Barbara Kingsolver or Lorrie Moore — although each
of the novels comes from a major publishing house.
Named a Companion
of Honour and a Companion
of Literature in Great Britain, she has been
awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize, Spain's Prince
of Asturias Prize, the International Catalunya
Award, and the S. T. Dupont Golden
PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature.
The
award is given in the
name of Tezuka Osamu, a manga pioneer who
penned such manga as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.
All
of those
pen names won or were nominated for
awards and sold thousands and thousands
of copies per book.
About the Author: Melissa, writing under the
pen name M. K. Clinton, is the
award - winning author
of «The Returns» book series.
Samantha Hunt, Professor
of Writing in Pratt's School
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been
named a 2018 finalist for the prestigious
PEN / Faulkner
Award for Fiction for her 2017 book, The Dark Dark: Stories.